Bharat Ratna Awardees

1.  Dr.Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan-1954

2.  Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman-1954

3.  Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari-1954

4.  Dr. Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya-1955

5.  Shri Jawaharlal Nehru-1955

6.  Dr. Bhagwan Das-1955

7.  Pt. Govind Ballabh Pan-1957

8.  Dr. Dhonde Keshav Karve-1958

9.  Shri Purushottam Das Tandon-1961

10.Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy-1961

11.Dr. Rajendra Prasad-1962

12.Dr. Zakir Hussain-1963

13.Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane-1963

14.Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri-1966

15.Smt. Indira Gandhi-1971

16.Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri-1975

17.Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj-1976

18.Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)-1980

19.Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave-1983

20.Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan-1987

21.Shri Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran-1988

22.Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela-1990

23.Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakr-1990

24.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel-1991

25.Shri Rajiv Gandhi-1991

26.Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai-1991

27.Shri Satyajit Ray-1992

28.Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad-1992

29.Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata-1992

30.Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda-1997

31.Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali-1997

32.Shri (Dr.) Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam-1997

33.Smt. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi-1998

34.Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam-1998

35.Pandit Ravi Shankar-1999

36.Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan-1999

37.Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi-1999

38.Prof. Amartya Sen-1999

39.Ustad Bismillah Khan-2001

40.Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar-2001

41.Pandit Bhimsen Joshi-2008

42.Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar-(expected to be awarded this year)